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Costa Rica is probably my #3 because CONCACAF, but Germany is automatically my #2 because heritage/I **** love Germany/I have a lot of German friends and my social media will be significantly more pleasant if they win

Not as decisive as most of Germany's previous games were, but France never looked like they had a serious chance of winning.

Brazil 2-1 Colombia

Colombia, on the other hand, easily could have won this. Brazil's second goal was off a free kick that the goalkeeper did an absolutely terrible job defending, and Colombia had several chances that barely missed.

It's getting more popular in general as well now that it's actually possible to watch the EPL without extra subscriptions, but the numbers from that aren't going to be anything like what the World Cup draws. It's still going to be a while before it stops being a niche sport to watch, I think.

I don't think soccer is long-term marketable in the US since networks can't run enough commercials during a match.

There's also a catch-22. Our best athletes will only go to pro soccer if there's more money in it than the NBA/NFL/MLB. And that won't happen until the sport can be more commercialized. And sponsors won't care to find a creative way of doing this until more people watch. And more people won't watch until our best athletes go pro. And so on and so on.

And the American macho man attitude is the antithesis to soccer. We like seeing quick bursts of guys CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER vs. non-contact continuous sprinting where if someone gets tripped and grimaces they are a WHINY BITCH. Even baseball is losing ground to American football.